Tennessee Women in Government Program Wednesday, March 21

By Kathy Groob | March 20, 2012

Women In Government Luncheon Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:30-1:00 pmat the Hermitage, Tennessee Featuring a State Briefing on Family Economic Success Among those attending will be Representatives Karen Camper, Lois DeBerry, Jeanne Richardson, Sherry Jones and Senator Beverly Marrero and they invite you to join them at the The Hermitage for the Women in Government Luncheon. The Tennessee State Briefing…

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Launches New DNC Women’s Initiative

By Kathy Groob | March 13, 2012 |

Introducing the DNC Women’s Institute Posted by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chair on Thursday, March 08, 2012 This year, Republicans have gone after Planned Parenthood, tried to redefine rape, worked to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and have gone after Title X. One of their leading candidates, Mitt Romney, has recently embraced the Blunt-Rubio…

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Longtime City Councilwoman Killed in Tornado Outbreak

By Kathy Groob | March 7, 2012

Moscow, OH- Longtime Moscow Village councilwoman, Carole Forste was killed Friday at her home while making her way to the basement as a tornado approached the community she served for 18 years.  80% of the homes in the Moscow area were destroyed in the storms.  The storms were part of a system stretching from the…

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Making History: Indiana State House Recognizes First Female African-Am.Woman Mayor in Indiana

By Kathy Groob | March 5, 2012 |

Indiana -Representatives Vernon Smith and Charlie Brown recognized Karen Freeman-Wilson as the first female African American mayor in the State of Indiana with a resolution presented today in the Indiana State House of Representatives.  Freeman-Wilson won her election this past November and became the first female mayor of Gary Indiana. Before November’s election, only 11 of Indiana’s…

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MO Rep. Stacey Newman – Turnabout is fair play

By Kathy Groob | March 3, 2012 |

By Paul Friswold, Riverfront Times – ​Well, well, well. The birth-control debate has finally come to our swimsuit areas, gentlemen. Yesterday Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis County) filed HB1853, which would only allow a man to have a vasectomy when doing so would protect him from serious injury or prevent his death. Ah, the legislation’s on…

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Georgia Democratic Female Representative Proposes Vasectomy Bill

By Kathy Groob | February 22, 2012 |

CNN – As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats  introduced their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.” Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, planned on Wednesday…

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2013 Campaign Preview: New York City Speaker Christine Quinn Offers Agenda for City

By Kathy Groob | February 13, 2012 |

The New York Times – Christine C. Quinn, simultaneously offering an agenda for the City Council and a preview of her mayoral campaign, proposed on Thursday to crack down on landlords whose buildings are deteriorating, to make kindergarten mandatory and to provide more job training for unemployed New Yorkers. Ms. Quinn, the Council speaker, touched in her annual State…

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The last World War I veteran dies at 110. A woman!

By Kathy Groob | February 9, 2012

New York Times – The last veteran of World War I was a waitress, and for 90 years no one knew her name. Florence Green, a member of Britain’s Royal Air Force who was afraid of flying, died in England on Saturday, two weeks shy of her 111th birthday. She was believed to have been the…

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